Sexual Battery is defined in Kansas as:
The intentional touching of the person of another who is 16 or more years of age, who is not the spouse of the offender and who does not consent thereto with the intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of the offender or another.
Sexual battery in Kansas is a class A person misdemeanor.
The law in Missouri is similar.
Under the federal regulation, passengers have a choice of being observed by a person they cannot see with a device that strips away their clothes and subjects them to derision, humiliation, and exposure. They may opt out of the full body scan. Then people touch them in very inappropriate places. They are compelled to accept this humiliation if they want to use a public airplane. If they start the process and then opt out and walk away, the passenger may be fined $11,000. It is hard to say that this process is not compelled and it is certain that many do not give consent.
It is amazing to me that the so-called war on Terrorism has cost us our civil right to be free of UNREASONABLE searches and seizures. If every fear results in a loss of civil rights, why keep any of them. Saddam Hussein's Iraq was much safer than the Iraq today. The growing dictatorship in the United States is perhaps safer, although that is far from clear, but is safer from foreign terrorists who choose to bomb planes.
The polls say that 81% of America while not liking the new rules will submit to them. Eighty one percent of Nazi Germany went along with Hitler. Civil Rights are not determined by the majority. What is happening in America is criminal and totalitarian. If it happened in North Korea, we would expect it. However, what happens here in our airports is not even condoned in Iran.
The justification for the criminal acts which are occurring in the name of security is that more of the TSA employees will be able to get their jollies by playing with women's breasts and pussies and men's dicks. If any of us did what these perverts do in the name of security, we would be arrested.
I have made the only possible decision open to me. I will not fly a public jet. If I cannot take the time to drive or ride a train, I will not go.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Scott Roeder
Confessor Scott Roeder has been transferred to the Kansas State Prison at Lansing. Cards, letters and messages of support are needed to help keep the Confessor's spirits up in these trying times. Remember his blessings are powerful and you should ask him to bless you as he has carried the cross to Calvary and has suffered for the little children.
Let us not forget Blessed Scott Roeder in our prayers and thanksgivings.
Let us not forget Blessed Scott Roeder in our prayers and thanksgivings.
Monday, November 15, 2010
The Facts About Roman Catholic Exorcisms
Archbishop Naumann sent word to me today indicating that there were few requests for exorcisms within his diocese. Apparently he is not on the ground with his people as I have done three exorcisms on Catholics in the last year. He argues that a person must go through a battery of testing by doctors and psychiatric personnel before an exorcism is performed. While such tests are surely helpful, I have performed exorcisms on people who came great distances for the exorcism and there was no time for such interventions. He argues that exorcism is always a major affair because one is fighting with the Devil. Such opinions are laughable. The Devil neither has time nor desire to possess any body. It is demons, elementals, ghosts, and evil spirits which possess people. His ignorance is surpassed only by his arrogance.
In fact, exorcisms can be as simple as described in scripture, a mere force of the exorcist will commanding the demon to leave. Acts 5:16. Or an exorcism can take great effort as is seen in such movies as the Exorcist, the Exorcism of Gail Bower, or other popularized accounts. The person doing the exorcism must have the gift of faith, a strong gift beyond mere childhood belief, and sufficient holiness that the demon will fear the presence of G-d's person. Most priests today do not have such accoutrements. Many do not even believe in the Devil or demons.
If people are going to be increasingly looking at exorcisms, they are going to have to depend upon people like me to do them.
In fact, exorcisms can be as simple as described in scripture, a mere force of the exorcist will commanding the demon to leave. Acts 5:16. Or an exorcism can take great effort as is seen in such movies as the Exorcist, the Exorcism of Gail Bower, or other popularized accounts. The person doing the exorcism must have the gift of faith, a strong gift beyond mere childhood belief, and sufficient holiness that the demon will fear the presence of G-d's person. Most priests today do not have such accoutrements. Many do not even believe in the Devil or demons.
If people are going to be increasingly looking at exorcisms, they are going to have to depend upon people like me to do them.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Roman Catholics Want Exorcists
For centuries, the Roman Catholic Church believed in the existence of ghosts, demons, evil spirits, and exorcism. Then for a period of time Bishops within the Church and priests with little spirituality denied the very existence of these things and even the Devil's existence was denied. Now, as the real world encroaches upon the turn of the Roman Catholic Church to psychology, the Church has had to rethink its position.
In 1999, the Church revised the Ritual on Exorcism and began to appoint priests to the office of Diocesan Exorcist. It is difficult to understand why the Church would have ever lost the office. Every priest must first be ordained to the office of acolyte and then exorcist followed by subdeacon, deacon, and then priest. What does one do if one is appointed as an exorcist? Nothing apparently. The Church leaves to an official diocesan exorcist the office.
Exorcism is an ancient gift that came to all believers. In the longer ending of Mark its says: "These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons..." Mark 16:17. So, originally every person in the church could cast out demons. Then, apparently, the true believers became fewer in number, the church found it necessary to ordain people to the office of exorcist. It is presumed that they chose people who already had demonstrated that they were true believers by casting demons. Eventually, the Church came to see that those who could cast demons already were anointed by G-d to the office of Priest. The Apostolic Tradition of St. Hippolytus says: "If any one among the laity appear to have received a gift of healing by a revelation, hands shall not be laid upon him, because the matter is manifest." Part II, Section XV. As exorcism has always been seen as a form of healing, the person who acted as an exorcist was therefore already ordained as a priest, not by laying on of hands, but by the gift of G-d. So the church began to acknowledge that a priest should be an exorcist and an exorcist was already a priest. As the time passed, and fewer and fewer of the priesthood had an actual spiritual calling to the Priesthood, it became necessary for the Bishops to appoint a specific person of renowned holiness to perform the acts of an exorcist. Eventually, with the advent of psychology, the Church trained its priesthood in psychology and not exorcism.
Eventually, psychologists began to see that exorcisms worked on their patients. See Historical and Folk Techniques of Exorcism: Application to the Treatment of Dissociative Disorders, by Jean Goodwin, M.D., M.P.H., Sally Hill, M.S.W., Reina Attias, Ph.D. They, following the teachings of Dr. William James, the father of Religious Psychology, began to use exorcism as a technique of healing again.
Now it appears that the Roman Catholic Church has come full circle. According to Reuters and AP, the Roman Catholic Church is holding a special training workshop in Baltimore this weekend to teach clerics the Rite of Exorcism. The Church has signed up 56 Bishops and 66 priests for the two-day workshop that began on Friday, seeking to boost the small group of just five or six American exorcists that the Church currently has on its books. Catholic Church law stipulates that only properly trained priests can perform the rite -- and then only with the permission of their bishops.
Having performed over 100 exorcisms in the last 38 years, I would suggest that the norms that Rome is setting down are ridiculous. First of all, every believer has this gift, if called to use it. Apparently, there are not many believers in the huge Roman Catholic Church. Second, only people with the gift can perform exorcisms. The intervention of the Bishops to choose someone they want to do the exorcisms will avail them nothing. The book Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, by Father Matt Baglio demonstrates not only the ineptness of Roman exorcists who allow gross activities to occur during exorcisms despite the commands of the Rite, but it also shows that the persons who are chosen do not have sufficient spiritual development to accomplish the task. Third, if a person has the gift, it does not take an act of Rome or anyone else to make a person an exorcist. Fourth, there is no scriptural requirement that a Bishop be informed or be involved in an exorcism. I think this attempt on the part of the Church will fail, falling flat on its face.
The reality of demons is real. The reality that there are few qualified to expel them is also real. The certainty that the people appointed to perform exorcisms must have the supernatural gift of G-d before they attempt to perform exorcisms is also a certainty. I hope that the priests involved do not get harmed by this inept and foolish attempt to circumvent G-d's methods.
In 1999, the Church revised the Ritual on Exorcism and began to appoint priests to the office of Diocesan Exorcist. It is difficult to understand why the Church would have ever lost the office. Every priest must first be ordained to the office of acolyte and then exorcist followed by subdeacon, deacon, and then priest. What does one do if one is appointed as an exorcist? Nothing apparently. The Church leaves to an official diocesan exorcist the office.
Exorcism is an ancient gift that came to all believers. In the longer ending of Mark its says: "These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons..." Mark 16:17. So, originally every person in the church could cast out demons. Then, apparently, the true believers became fewer in number, the church found it necessary to ordain people to the office of exorcist. It is presumed that they chose people who already had demonstrated that they were true believers by casting demons. Eventually, the Church came to see that those who could cast demons already were anointed by G-d to the office of Priest. The Apostolic Tradition of St. Hippolytus says: "If any one among the laity appear to have received a gift of healing by a revelation, hands shall not be laid upon him, because the matter is manifest." Part II, Section XV. As exorcism has always been seen as a form of healing, the person who acted as an exorcist was therefore already ordained as a priest, not by laying on of hands, but by the gift of G-d. So the church began to acknowledge that a priest should be an exorcist and an exorcist was already a priest. As the time passed, and fewer and fewer of the priesthood had an actual spiritual calling to the Priesthood, it became necessary for the Bishops to appoint a specific person of renowned holiness to perform the acts of an exorcist. Eventually, with the advent of psychology, the Church trained its priesthood in psychology and not exorcism.
Eventually, psychologists began to see that exorcisms worked on their patients. See Historical and Folk Techniques of Exorcism: Application to the Treatment of Dissociative Disorders, by Jean Goodwin, M.D., M.P.H., Sally Hill, M.S.W., Reina Attias, Ph.D. They, following the teachings of Dr. William James, the father of Religious Psychology, began to use exorcism as a technique of healing again.
Now it appears that the Roman Catholic Church has come full circle. According to Reuters and AP, the Roman Catholic Church is holding a special training workshop in Baltimore this weekend to teach clerics the Rite of Exorcism. The Church has signed up 56 Bishops and 66 priests for the two-day workshop that began on Friday, seeking to boost the small group of just five or six American exorcists that the Church currently has on its books. Catholic Church law stipulates that only properly trained priests can perform the rite -- and then only with the permission of their bishops.
Having performed over 100 exorcisms in the last 38 years, I would suggest that the norms that Rome is setting down are ridiculous. First of all, every believer has this gift, if called to use it. Apparently, there are not many believers in the huge Roman Catholic Church. Second, only people with the gift can perform exorcisms. The intervention of the Bishops to choose someone they want to do the exorcisms will avail them nothing. The book Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, by Father Matt Baglio demonstrates not only the ineptness of Roman exorcists who allow gross activities to occur during exorcisms despite the commands of the Rite, but it also shows that the persons who are chosen do not have sufficient spiritual development to accomplish the task. Third, if a person has the gift, it does not take an act of Rome or anyone else to make a person an exorcist. Fourth, there is no scriptural requirement that a Bishop be informed or be involved in an exorcism. I think this attempt on the part of the Church will fail, falling flat on its face.
The reality of demons is real. The reality that there are few qualified to expel them is also real. The certainty that the people appointed to perform exorcisms must have the supernatural gift of G-d before they attempt to perform exorcisms is also a certainty. I hope that the priests involved do not get harmed by this inept and foolish attempt to circumvent G-d's methods.
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